Test Your Courant Events I.q.

News Quiz

January 21, 2001

1. On Martin Luther King Day, the No. 3 Fighting Irish upset the No. 1 UConn Huskies, ending an 11-game era of UConn dominance over them in women's basketball. What No. 1 team was likewise overcome on MLK Day in 1995 before a national television audience?

2. What is the rhetorical technique, called anaphora, that Martin Luther King used effectively in many of his speeches?

4. Jonathan Mills, charged in the fatal stabbing of his Guilford aunt and her two young children, has a rap sheet with 23 convictions, mostly for crimes fueled by his drug habit. How much time has he served altogether? A) 11 years, 3 months, B) 2 years, 10 months, C) 5 years, 10 months, D) 15 years, 1 month.

5. Researchers in Oregon have been monkeying around with genes. Just what did they insert into whom, and why?

NEWS QUIZ ANSWERS

1. The Tennessee Lady Vols lost, 77-66, to UConn at Gampel Pavilion.

2. The repetition of the initial phrase in a string of sentences (``Now is the time to rise from the dark ...,'' ``Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity ...,'' ``Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice ...'').

3. C

4. B

5. They put DNA from a jellyfish into a baby rhesus monkey, proving scientists can tinker with the chromosomes of a primate. The researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Center hope to be able to use monkeys to study how to block diseases at the genetic level. Their experiment was detailed in the Jan. 12 issue of the journal Science.